Wasn’t it a Mâori chieftan who uttered the famous words “My kingdom for some Indomethacin”?
No, the Maori chieftan said,
“Everybody form a circle...
Put your left foot in,
Your left foot gout,
Your left foot in,
And shake it all about.
You do the hokey pokey
And turn yourself around.
Now put your right foot in,
Your right foot gout,
Right foot in
Then you shake it all about.
And then you do the Hokey Pokey
Turn yourself around,
That’s what it’s all about.”
I'm no Maori chieftan but I've been known to utter those words a few times. Most recently it was during a trip to Oregon when Old Red Toe flared up and I'd left the pills at home. Since I couldn't get a shoe on one foot, I wore a slipper for the flight back to California.
As I hobbled around the Eugene airport I could see the Security people looking my way and whispering to each other. At boarding time the "Red-Toed Slipper Bomber" got the most thorough going-over in the history of Eugene airport security.